All we know are the results - I don't 'need to restate them do I? Look up the Leafs record with Dion leading the way.
What do you know? Tell me something thats based in reality - and on the facts that would suggest he is a good Captain?
You don't have anything. Not a single straw to grasp.
I have facts. Solid evidence that suggests he's doing a Horrible job.
I couldn't tell you who would be able to do a better job - but I can tell you that its worth giving someone else a look at the very least.
What is really happening here is that the average hockey fan is attempting to quantify what it means to be a 'good' captain in the NHL. There is no factual way to do such a thing, no matter what your facts are, unless players on the team have come out to the media and blurted it out in an interview.
The team's record with Phaneuf as captain has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO with how 'good' of a captain he is, and now it is on YOU to show me why it has anything to do with it.. You may have heard of the phrase "Innocent until proven guilty".
What does an 86.5 point-pace with a Game 7 appearance vs the Boston Bruins over four years have to do with his captaining ability (or lack thereof)?
Other players that have been around for the Leafs' three collapses:
Bozak
Franson
Gardiner
Gunnarsson
Kadri
Kessel
Kulemin
Lupul
Reimer
AKA what most Leaf fans name as our 'core', give or take a couple players on that list. Maybe they're the problem? Maybe the coach is the problem? Maybe none of us have a CLUE as to how a team in the NHL is run, and we should leave it to no more than speculation on this hockey forum.
Your whole post is just your opinion; what makes you think that you know how good or bad of a captain Dion is? Some of you people are ridiculous, and are the main reasons why hockey fans think less of our team.
Does anyone even care about what Henrik Sedin said about his team when the Canucks lost Game 7? Traded Schneider? Lost 7 straight? Traded Luongo? Of course not. Only in hockey's biggest market is someone ridiculed for NOT speaking.
I don't know about big markets or NHL. But I can assure you there is no way in hell I'll be backes' *****.
Not even worth it....